Comments on: Stereophile’s comments on our room http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/204 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:05:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Stereophile’s comments on our room by: Mike http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/204#comment-722 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:11:20 +0000 http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/204#comment-722 Thanks, Boehler. We really appreciate the kind words. My camera: this is what I wrote for the Montreal 2006 show report, with modifications so that it is updated for what I did at both CEDIA and RMAF. <img src="http://www.audiofederation.com/hifiing/2006/FSI2006/report/commentary/page1/IMG_4649.jpg" alt="My old Canon Rebel XL photo of my new Canon 20D" /> "The camera setup I used was a Canon 20D with a 580EX flash paired with a Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce. I used the Canon 16-35L lens on full-auto for the room shots and at f/11 with a shutter speed of 1/40 second at ISO 200 for most of the closeups (after doing almost 1000 test snaps pre-show here on one of our systems in a similar, mostly artificially lighted room, ISO 400 and 800 was found to be too grainy for the type of crop and zoom work we do on some of the photos). We also used a Canon EF 50mm 1.4 mostly at the same f/11 setting. I used f/11 for both its sharpness and for its someone deeper depth of field in order to get as much of the typical faceplate shots in focus as possible. Yes, f/11 is somewhat light-challenged so for especially problematic black components it was stepped down to f/8 or so." The challenge is to get the right depth of field - so that everything is in sharp focus, yet be bright enough to see everything - which is exacerbated by the low amount of light in a typical hotel room at a typcial show. This is what Albert does so well that I did not notice when I first started out. As usual, the more you know about a hobby, the more the subtleties drive you crazy :-) Take care, Mike. Thanks, Boehler. We really appreciate the kind words.

My camera: this is what I wrote for the Montreal 2006 show report, with modifications so that it is updated for what I did at both CEDIA and RMAF.

My old Canon Rebel XL photo of my new Canon 20D

“The camera setup I used was a Canon 20D with a 580EX flash paired with a Sto-Fen Omni-Bounce. I used the Canon 16-35L lens on full-auto for the room shots and at f/11 with a shutter speed of 1/40 second at ISO 200 for most of the closeups (after doing almost 1000 test snaps pre-show here on one of our systems in a similar, mostly artificially lighted room, ISO 400 and 800 was found to be too grainy for the type of crop and zoom work we do on some of the photos). We also used a Canon EF 50mm 1.4 mostly at the same f/11 setting.

I used f/11 for both its sharpness and for its someone deeper depth of field in order to get as much of the typical faceplate shots in focus as possible. Yes, f/11 is somewhat light-challenged so for especially problematic black components it was stepped down to f/8 or so.”

The challenge is to get the right depth of field - so that everything is in sharp focus, yet be bright enough to see everything - which is exacerbated by the low amount of light in a typical hotel room at a typcial show. This is what Albert does so well that I did not notice when I first started out. As usual, the more you know about a hobby, the more the subtleties drive you crazy :-)

Take care,
Mike.

]]> Comment on Stereophile’s comments on our room by: Boehler http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/204#comment-721 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:37:01 +0000 http://audiofederation.com/blog/archives/204#comment-721 I'm sure that you have posted your camera equipment somewhere on the site but I didn't find it based on a casual glance. What camera, lense(s), and flash do you use to get the great pictures. Having watched the posts over the past few years, I would say that you photographing of hardware has been excellent. As I looked over the CEDIA report and pictures, I felt like I was at the show. Great job, keep up the good work. P.S. Your rooms sounded great and the music was just fine. Maybe not audiophile approved with Barber and Krall but real music that most of us care to hear. I’m sure that you have posted your camera equipment somewhere on the site but I didn’t find it based on a casual glance.

What camera, lense(s), and flash do you use to get the great pictures. Having watched the posts over the past few years, I would say that you photographing of hardware has been excellent.

As I looked over the CEDIA report and pictures, I felt like I was at the show. Great job, keep up the good work.

P.S. Your rooms sounded great and the music was just fine. Maybe not audiophile approved with Barber and Krall but real music that most of us care to hear.

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